Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-05-30
LOCAL BREyiTIEs.

The City Board of Education will meet
this evening.
The Grand Lodge of f. and A. NJ. (col.
ored) will meet in this city June Goth.
Bids for the Caledonia picnic privileges
will be received at Pioneer Hall Thursday
evening at o'clock.
Memorial Day will be appropriately OBJ
served in Woodland, under the auspices of
VIM. ii. Seward Post, No. IS. G. A R.
Sheriff Lord, of Nevada county, passed
through the city yesterday, conveying to
| Stockton an insane Chinaman named All
Jim.
Frank Biggs, brakeman on one of the
Sacramento and Placerville trains, met
with an accident Saturday, causing the
fracture of one of his legs.
The confirmation exercises at the syna-
gogue yesterday were largely attended and
exceedingly interesting. The programme
was well rendered and very pleasing.
Mrs. Margaret E. Parker, founder and
will lecture upon "Woman's Influence in
the Temperance Cause" at the Congrega-
tlonal Church tomorrow evening.
Sacramentans who were in San Francisco
on Saturday state that the weather there
was exceedingly hot and more oppressive
than any ever experienced in this city. 1t
was the hottest ever known there and
caused much distress.
The San Francisco Alta, speaking of the
Californian games at the Bay on SATURDAY.,
says that feature of the day was the
dancing of the Highland Fling and the
Reel O Tulloch by children of members of
the Sacramento CALIFORNIAN Club, there be.
ing twenty present. and each receiving a
valuable prize.
Wally Hector, young man who had
resided in the city since he was In his
teens, and was general favorite because
OF his many good qualities, died last Satur-
day OF consumption, after lingering i'll
ness. He was native of Germany, in his
thirty-seventh year. He was member of
the improved Order of Red Men and the
Knights of Pythias.
The two young men who attempted to
stop Chas. Newman in the vicinity of Sew
enteenth and ii streets, last Thursday
night, were arrested by the police Saturday
evening, and, while admitting that they
endeavored to stop him, explained that
they were only in fun. Under the circum-
stances they were released, but such fun"
will not pay TO follow up.
A Dayisville man saws that a small
black beetle, unnamed in the catalogue of
fruit pests, is committing fearful ravages
among the grapevines in that section
Thousands of vines in the Briggs vineyard
are almost completely Genuded of foliage
and the crop ruined. No remedy has as
yet been found. Sulphur and paris green
only sharpen his appetite.
Arrived Saturday and yesterday, steamer
San Joaquin Nc. 4, with merchandise and
barge load of freight for the upper Sacra-
mento; steamer d. E. knight, from San
Francisco for Marysville, with merchan-
disc. Cleared, steamers, San Joaquin No
and Neponset, for the upper Sacramento,
with merchandise; steamer San JOAQUIN
No. for San Francisco with merchandise.
DR.. Berson lectured yesterday afternoon
at the tent of the Second Adyentists. Six
teenth and l streets. As il was confirma-
ton day at the Synagogue his lecture upon
The Jews Past, Present and Future
was, by request, postponed, and in its place
he spoke upon the coming of Elijah and
the Jews return to the Holy Land. There
was good audience, and interested a.ten-
ton was given.
As the police were unable to get rid of
the Chinaman, partially insane, who re-
turned to the station-house overtime he
was sent away, declaring on each arrival,
me come home again." they finally de-
clded TO adopt him, and he is now being
taught to make himself generally useful
about the city prison. He has been named
Friday" and, to make a creditable ap-
pearance, has been fitted out with bile"
shirt and collar suit of summer clothing,
including nankeen pants, stunning
necktie and pin, oroide watch-chain, and
large nickle- plated star-No. 16 He ''feels
his oats" as the boys say; will have
nothing to do with the residents of China
town, declaring "Chinaman no good" and
it was noticed that one day, when he was
sent to Fourth and l streets, he went
around and returned by and K streets,
and if Cinnamon addressed him, passed
by in silence